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'I live in a country where guaranteed health care is part of the constitution.'

In the light of ' Almost half of the 6 million people needing treatment from the NHS in England have had no further care at all since joining a hospital waiting list, new data reveals. Previously unseen NHS England figures show that 2.99 million of the 6.23 million patients (48%) awaiting care have not had either their first appointment with a specialist or a diagnostic test since being referred by a GP.'

- Assuming it's successful in its goal, can your country tell Britain how to do it? Please!

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Britain has always had challenges, and the side-effects manifest in predictable ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdVB-R6Duso

Over a human lifetime, the immediate economic decisions do change macroeconomic postures. For example, consider variable costs of dental services for braces, fillings, crowns, root canals, extraction, bone loss, dentures, and supporting pharmaceuticals/radiology. Then consider a one-time standard fixed cost of volume discounted cosmetic titanium implants with a crown. People would look great, have better heart health, and suffer less treatments over time.

Rationally, the more expensive option ends up several times less expensive than a sequence of bodges. Yet no politician in the world could make that happen due to initial costs, regulatory capture, and rent-seeking economic policy. Note, GDP would contract slightly as cost savings compounded, and quality of life improved.

In general, one could run integrated education, emergency care, and disease control diagnostics like assembly lines. Routing patients though 24h virtual sorting for specialist site clinics on fixed service rotation.

Some have already imagined efficient hip and knee replacement services that make sense in other contexts:

https://youtu.be/iUFXXB08RZk?si=sjvH3amiwEnUecT9&t=13

UK healthcare isn't a technical problem, and it would be unethical to interfere with such affairs. Best regards =3

the historically underfunded NHS took a massive hit to its funding at the start of the credit crunch, and then again in covid. neither cut was restored, whilst patient numbers have steadily risen (UK needs population growth to fuel property prices to avoid recession - 20% of gdp is construction).

people are dying because hospitals cant afford to operate. getting deals on volume purchases is irrelevant

>people are dying because hospitals cant afford to operate

In general, around 24% of health care costs are spent in the final year of life. It is also legal here for folks to request a painless early exit from palliative and end-of-life care, but depends on individuals faith and philosophical stance.

1. How many local kids do you personally know made it into medical school?

2. Is your national debt and %debt to GDP ratio growing?

3. Is your middle class job market in growth?

If the answer is 0, yes, and no... than the core problems may become more clear. Best of luck =3

so no money then? what i said

Currency requires trade to generate tax revenue, and is like holding a bucket of water with a hole in the bottom.

Folks could nationalize gold reserves >1oz like the US did to exit the depression, publish holding-company investment owners, tax investment properties at 6% of assessed value every year, and pass a right-of-first-sale to citizens regardless of bid amount on residential zoned estates like Singapore.

One may wager any such actions are unlikely from the hapless. =3